Modeling Quality and Housing Preferences for Affordable New Housing Developments

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Alina Delgado ◽  
Frank De Troyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Housing Preferences ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Additional Value ◽  
The City

A fundamental change in the planning and delivery of new housing projects has taken place in the last years, with the focus shifting towards adding value to projects based on a better understanding of housing preferences. This issue becomes even more critical when it is intended to the provision of affordable houses for low and middle income groups. This paper describes a model designed to help developers and housing users to achieve their expectations regarding quality, affordability and including also reasonable profits. Developed through a “methodological pluralism”, this study identifies people-oriented variables and assumptions. The model was developed based on a case study in the city of Guayaquil-Ecuador, and information obtained from field work research was used to test it. The study examines implications and limitations of the model for inclusion of housing preferences considering local conditions and cultural values. The different parts of the model along with data requirements for each part are described. The paper concludes with findings regarding the identification of most preferred attributes by housing users and the use of alternatives methods to incorporate additional value into projects, translated into more appealing profits for developers and the provision of better and more affordable houses for users.

A Study of the Relationships Between Urban Development and Environmental Quality

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Chyi-Lu Jang ◽  
Luke H.C. Hsiao ◽  
Shang-Pao Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Housing Preferences ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Additional Value ◽  
The City ◽  
Data Requirements

A fundamental change in the planning and delivery of new housing projects has taken place in the last years, with the focus shifting towards adding value to projects based on a better understanding of housing preferences. This issue becomes even more critical when it is intended to the provision of affordable houses for low and middle income groups. This paper describes a model designed to help developers and housing users to achieve their expectations regarding quality, affordability and including also reasonable profits. Developed through a “methodological pluralism”, this study identifies people-oriented variables and assumptions. The model was developed based on a case study in the city of Guayaquil-Ecuador, and information obtained from field work research was used to test it. The study examines implications and limitations of the model for inclusion of housing preferences considering local conditions and cultural values. The different parts of the model along with data requirements for each part are described. The paper concludes with findings regarding the identification of most preferred attributes by housing users and the use of alternatives methods to incorporate additional value into projects, translated into more appealing profits for developers and the provision of better and more affordable houses for users.

scholarly journals Contrasts in Innovation: Pittsburgh Then and Now

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Madison
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Industrial Regions ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Assessments of the relationship among law, innovation, and economic growth often begin with one or more propositions of law or law practice and predict how changes might affect innovation or business practice. This approach is problematic when applied to questions of regional economic development, because historic and contemporary local conditions vary considerably. This paper takes a different tack. It takes a snapshot of one recovering post-industrial economy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. For most of the 20th century, Pittsburgh's steelmakers were leading examples worldwide of American economic prowess. Pittsburgh was so vibrant with industry that a late 19th century travel writer called Pittsburgh "hell with the lid taken off," and he meant that as a compliment. In the early 1980s, however, Pittsburgh's steel economy collapsed, a victim of changing worldwide demand for steel and the industry's inflexible commitment to a large-scale integrated production model. As the steel industry collapsed, the Pittsburgh region collapsed, too. Unemployment in some parts of the Pittsburgh region peaked at 20%. More than 100,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared. Tens of thousands of residents moved away annually. Over the last 30 years, Pittsburgh has slowly recovered, building a new economy that balances limited manufacturing with a broad range of high quality services. In 2009, President Barack Obama took note of the region's rebirth by selecting the city to host a summit of the Group of 20 (G-20) finance ministers. The paper describes the characteristics of Pittsburgh today and measures the state of its renewal. It considers the extent, if any, to which law and the legal system have contributed to Pittsburgh's modern success, and it identifies lessons that this Pittsburgh case study might offer for other recovering and transitioning post-industrial regions.

scholarly journals Housing Preferences of Seniors and Pre-Senior Citizens in Poland—A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Jancz ◽  
Radoslaw Trojanek
Keyword(s):  
Senior Citizens ◽  
The Other ◽  
Single Family ◽  
City Center ◽  
Housing Preferences ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Family Housing ◽  
The City ◽  
Family House

This article identifies and compares the housing preferences of seniors and pre-senior citizens in Poland. In addition, the attitude of residents of large cities in the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship towards senior citizens’ housing was determined. Surveys were conducted in the two largest cities of this region. The influence of the potential behaviors of this group of society on the development of housing was also examined. Results showed that differentiation of housing preferences was visible primarily when choosing the type of development and size of the dwelling. Seniors preferred smaller units in multi-family housing construction. Pre-senior citizens, on the other hand, were more likely to think about living in a single-family house. The location of a new dwelling was also important. Seniors, more often than people aged 50–59, chose a location in the city center. Pre-senior citizens, in contrast, more often decided to live in a rural area or outside the city center. Moreover, the attitude of seniors towards senior citizens’ housing is undecided, which may indicate that many people may change their housing preferences in the future and decide to move.

scholarly journals From Ideal Proposals to Serial Developments: Victor Bourgeois’s Schemes in the Light of Post-War Developments in Brussels

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gérald Ledent
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
The Third ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City ◽  
Broad Consensus ◽  
New Infrastructure ◽  
The Ideal

Three essential elements of modernism consolidated through war: a centralised welfare state, a serial industrial apparatus and, often, a territorial tabula rasa. Hence, for many modernist architects and urban planners, post-war Europe became the ideal ground to put their ideas to the test. However, there is a genuine discrepancy between the proposals of the first four Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and what was massively implemented throughout Europe after 1945. To explore this divergence, Brussels proves to be an interesting case study for two main reasons. First, it hosted the third CIAM in November 1930, where Victor Bourgeois presented his views on housing and cities, in line with the ideals of the time. Second, after the war, Belgium, like many Western countries, experienced a period of euphoria, during which the modernist ideology attained a sudden and broad consensus. In the capital over the following three decades new infrastructure was built, as well as housing developments that derived, at least formally, from the CIAM ideals. This article explores the gap between the ideals and the reality of modernism through a comparison on two scales: the city and housing. Bourgeois’s Grand and Nouveau Bruxelles proposals are compared to the Manhattan Plan and Etrimo’s housing developments. Understanding the gap between the ideals of modernism and its implementation may help identify characteristics of the modernist movement but also, as Lacaton-Vassal pointed out when citing Habermas, complete the “unfinished project” (Habermas, 1984) of modernism.

scholarly journals Challenges of Urban Living Labs towards the Future of Local Innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aksel Ersoy ◽  
Ellen Van Bueren
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
Local Solutions ◽  
The City ◽  
Development Result

Finding new approaches to overcome complex urban problems such as climate change has always been of interest to policymakers and academics. The changing dynamics of urban development result in the diversification of new practices during which experimentation is used to inform urban practice. Amongst these approaches, urban living labs (ULLs) have become a popular form of urban experimental innovation in many countries in the last decade. These ULLs respond to the increased complexity of future challenges calling for local solutions that acknowledge the local conditions—political, technical, and social. Even though a great deal of attention has been given to this form of urban innovation, there has been little consideration of the learning and innovation processes within ULLs. Based on a comparative case study of three innovation projects in a ULL in the city of Amsterdam, we analyse and discuss the claims of ULLs regarding innovation and the different orders of learning they foster. We argue that in the processes of experimentation within ULLs, combining mechanisms of learning and innovation is key to promoting the development of particular local solutions. However, since the learning processes are especially concerned within a particular ULL learning setting, there is a mismatch between the expectations of policymakers, industry, citizens, and knowledge institutes, as well as how the lessons learned can be useful for other contexts.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STANDARD APPROACH FOR OPEN SPACE PLANNING IN KUALA LUMPUR

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robiah Suratman ◽  
Maryanti Mohd Raid ◽  
Mohd Izuan Nadzri ◽  
Salfarina Samsudin ◽  
Nurkhairiyah Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Population Number ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Space Planning ◽  
Open Space Planning ◽  
Implementation Of Standards ◽  
The City

This article attempts to discuss the implementation of standards approach, 2 hectares per 1000 population as approved by the National Physical Planning Council in 2005. Using Kuala Lumpur as case study, the analysis showed that the uniformity of standards approach implementation has failed to take into account the distinction within the local conditions which have implications on the level of achievement for the 6 planning zones in Kuala Lumpur from 2011 to 2017. Use of the standards approach without modifications has created high density zones such as the City Centre, Sentul-Manjalara and Wangsa Maju-Maluri failed to attain the standards. Besides, other zones namely Damansara-Penchala, Bandar Tun Razak-Sungai Besi and Bukit Jalil-Seputih have exceeded the targeted standards. Based on the analysis, the distinction of local condition for each zone in Kuala Lumpur in terms of population number, urban land availability, land value, urbanization process and densification rate of the city need to be considered in implementing standards approach.

Dinosaurs Become Birds: Changing Cultural Values in Cape Town Theatre

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-162
Author(s):  
GAY MORRIS
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Marketing Environment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
The City

This article examines a significant change in the hierarchies of value in cultural production in urban Cape Town, where there has been a bifurcation of theatre in the urban centre and on the township periphery. Theatre at these two sites differs in aesthetic character, themes and infrastructural resources, which derive from a history of legislated racial separatism that is still evident today socially, culturally, educationally and in the development of the city itself. Here, I identify changes that have come about in recent years not so much because of the government's policy of redress, but because leading artists are using their pre-eminence and institutions to catalyse educational experiences, performance platforms and a positive marketing environment for theatre and artists from the townships. The Baxter Theatre and its Zabalaza Festival serve as a case study.

scholarly journals THE SIGNIFICANCE OF URBAN HISTORY FOR URBAN TOURISM RESEARCH AND PRACTICES: THE CASE OF BURSA

2015 ◽  
pp. 93-106
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
The City

Heritage is the historical result of past interactions. Urban history reveals components of that heritage in the context of a city and helps us to perceive cultural values in their unique connections. Historians have several kinds of references that are used to study urban history. Travelbooks and yearbooks, two of those historical sources, are deliberately emphasised in this study. They introduce not only tangible and intangible cultural heritage of a city as possible tools for sustainability and diversity, but also are essential references in tourism research for particularly historical academic views. Cultural heritage of today together with those lost or almost forgotten can be interpreted through urban history sources within its own methodology but in favour of urban tourism. The outcome is incomparable data for related territory. Besides, it can generate possibilities to enhance not only cliché methods for urban management but also understandings of business leaders. This paper,therefore, underlines distinctive studies of Ottoman Urban History as interdisciplinary input within tourism literature and for possible contributions in improvement of city tourism practices.Urban history studies are considered along with theperception of cultural heritage. The city Bursa is used as a case study in order to exemplify aims of this paper in wider conceptions for urban tourism research and practices. Introduced and evaluatedtravelbooksand yearbooks are hence written about Bursa. Travelbooksare especially chosen from those written by European travellers within nineteenth century. As a result, evaluation also captures perceptions of travellers in mentioned period. Yearbooks of the same era, on the other hand, are also introduced within the concept of urban tourism and cultural heritage.

SPECIFIC TOURIST AND RECREATION OFFERS OF AN AMERICAN COASTAL CITY – ON THE EXAMPLE OF HUNTINGTON BEACH (USA, SOUTH CALIFORNIA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Janusz Olearnik
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
Seaside Resort ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Active Leisure ◽  
The City

Purpose. Recognition of specifics regarding the tourist offer at a renowned seaside resort in Southern California and indication as to which of these specific features of the offer could be used in developing tourist offers in Poland. Method. The basic method used is case study, that is the tourist aspect of the city of Huntington Beach. The research material for the creation of this study was mainly collected using the method of direct observation, including participation during an internship in 2018 and annual visits from 2011 to 2016, as well as the study of printed and Internet materials. Findings. The main identified characteristics of the analysed offer are: sustainable use of natural and infrastructural conditions for tourism, suitably varied level of conditions for stay - adaptation to tourist segments, active leisure opportunities based on perfect use of local conditions, care for a clear tourist image of the city and specific local colour, mega-events, the impact of numerous tourist attractions in nearby towns. Research and conclusions limitations. Research was based on direct observations covering a specific case of one city. It is used to look for patterns for other tourist centres. Practical implications. It was indicated how the specific properties of the Huntington Beach tourist offer could be used to improve tourist offers in Polish coastal cities. Originality. The originality of the article consists in presenting and evaluating the tourist offer of Huntington Beach, a popular and renowned recreation centre in California. The source of originality concerns expert observations collected and systematised as a result of repeated stays in this city. Type of paper. The article can be considered as a case study.

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